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<blockquote data-quote="TheSword" data-source="post: 9301004" data-attributes="member: 6879661">I think there is another point from the interview that resonated. Not feeling the need to prove himself as a designer or publish a vanity project. How many changes in earlier edition shifts came about because new designers tried to be radical, because there were major systemic issues, and because sales weren’t where they were expected leading to demands for a revolution. For all the rejection of 5e’s popularity as validation, it’s popularity has removed the designers from the need to sell, sell, sell arguably letting them focus on fine tuning rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater.There is something unusual with 5e in that I bought as many books last year (and will this year) as I did the first and second year the game came out. That definitely wasn’t the case in any other edition of any game I’ve played. That isn’t a question of popularity. It’s a case of WotC still publishing things which I really want to buy and use. That’s pretty darn impressive. I can compare that to the dying days of pathfinder 1 and 3e and it’s is dramatically different. Even though I played both systems almost to the very end of their life.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="TheSword, post: 9301004, member: 6879661"] I think there is another point from the interview that resonated. Not feeling the need to prove himself as a designer or publish a vanity project. How many changes in earlier edition shifts came about because new designers tried to be radical, because there were major systemic issues, and because sales weren’t where they were expected leading to demands for a revolution. For all the rejection of 5e’s popularity as validation, it’s popularity has removed the designers from the need to sell, sell, sell arguably letting them focus on fine tuning rather than throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There is something unusual with 5e in that I bought as many books last year (and will this year) as I did the first and second year the game came out. That definitely wasn’t the case in any other edition of any game I’ve played. That isn’t a question of popularity. It’s a case of WotC still publishing things which I really want to buy and use. That’s pretty darn impressive. I can compare that to the dying days of pathfinder 1 and 3e and it’s is dramatically different. Even though I played both systems almost to the very end of their life. [/QUOTE]

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